Is reciting the adhkar with the intention of memorization, and seeking forgiveness with the intention of gaining worldly benefits, considered shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
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Question:
Yes. I say: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, is reciting the adhkar with the intention of memorization, and likewise seeking forgiveness with the intention of gaining worldly benefits, considered shirk?
Answer:
Yes, if the intention is purely for the world, then this is shirk, shirk in worship. But what is the shirk that expels one from the religion?
It is not the shirk that expels one from the religion. A person should make his intention sincere for Allah the Exalted, and there is no harm in him intending, along with the intention for Allah, what he needs. He seeks what he needs from the matters of the world[Al-Baqarah 2:201] he supplicates for his worldly life and his Hereafter. Yes. As for limiting it to the world only [Al-Baqarah 2:200] that is what is prohibited. Yes.
Yes. I say: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, is reciting the adhkar with the intention of memorization, and likewise seeking forgiveness with the intention of gaining worldly benefits, considered shirk?
Answer:
Yes, if the intention is purely for the world, then this is shirk, shirk in worship. But what is the shirk that expels one from the religion?
It is not the shirk that expels one from the religion. A person should make his intention sincere for Allah the Exalted, and there is no harm in him intending, along with the intention for Allah, what he needs. He seeks what he needs from the matters of the world
Our Lord, give us in this world [that which is] good and in the Hereafter [that which is] good and protect us from the punishment of the Fire."
رَبَّنَا آتِنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا حَسَنَةً وَفِي الْآخِرَةِ حَسَنَةً وَقِنَا عَذَابَ النَّارِAnd among the people is he who says, "Our Lord, give us in this world," and he will have in the Hereafter no share.
فَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَن يَقُولُ رَبَّنَا آتِنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا وَمَا لَهُ فِي الْآخِرَةِ مِنْ خَلَاقٍ
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قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [313 /641] هل قراءة الأذكار بنية الحفظ، والاستغفار بنية جلب المنافع يعد من الشرك؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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